Noah Feldman in FP: But there always was a 2nd MBrotherhood candidate…

“Now the electoral commission has banned el-Shater on the flimsy ground he had a criminal record — which he did, but only because of a political arrest by the Hosni Mubarak regime. Although the commission may have seen its action as a blow to the Brotherhood, there’s a good chance the group is happy to go back to its original plan of trying not to elect a president from within its ranks.”

— But we have all known, and it is public now for some time, that the MB ALSO RAN another candidate, Mohamed Mursi, 59, the head of the Brotherhood’s political party…

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